Week 44 - Greece F17 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 44 - Greece F17 ($10,000) - Heraklion (Hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Finally a hold by Dan - 6-5*

paulisi · Tennis legend

Final set tie break

Salmon · Tennis legend

Well, my scoreboard jumped from 4-5* to 6-5*!!

Salmon · Tennis legend

And now it's not updating.

Time to put on some brew and come back to good news.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And as people predicted, a nice comfortable win for Dan C today 7-5 in a 3rd set tiebreaker.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Dan wins 7-5 in the TB according to Bet365. rather underwhelming but at least he's had a good bit of court practice !

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
And as people predicted, a nice comfortable win for Dan C today 7-5 in a 3rd set tiebreaker.

Yeah, no worries ! smile bet Maxime rues that DF when he was 5-4 up in the TB . . .

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

L32: (1) Daniel Cox WR 245 beat (Q) Maxime Janvier (FRA) WR 1936 6-4 3-6 7-6(5)

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, nice gentle opener. Yikes !

Salmon · Tennis legend

I'm going with "phew".

Coxy is becoming good at playing at the level of his opponent. Too bad that there's no Djokovic in Greece F17, I suppose.

steven · Tennis legend

That was certainly a bit scary! Dan won't find out his R2 opponent until tomorrow.

steven · Tennis legend

Michael is 3-3* in the 1st set against Kalovelonis, who has won 12/13 points on serve. Michael didn't face a break point in his first 3 service games either but the Greek has won 8 points on Michael's serve.

Also, Dan's R2 opponent has just been decided:

L16: (1) Dan Cox WR 245 v Laurent Malouli (FRA) WR 741 (CH 571 in Apr)

steven · Tennis legend

Kalovelonis breaks and holds to take the 1st set 6-4, having only dropped 3 points on serve.

steven · Tennis legend

Things got a bit worse early in the 2nd set (Kalovelonis still dropping hardly any points on serve and Michael losing a lot more) before getting better, if a bit too late - in the end, Michael won 14 points on the Greek's serve and lost 24 on his own serve.

L32: (Q) Michael Suleau WR 1936 lost to Markos Kalovelonis (GRE) WR 722 (= CH) by 4 & 4

L16: (1) Dan Cox WR 245 v Laurent Malouli (FRA) WR 741 (CH 571 in Apr)